Vampire-bat

  • 81Vampire —    One of the undead. A corpse that lives in a grave during the day, and at night seeks nourishment by sucking the blood of humans. A vampire can take the form of a bat or wolf, and has no reflection in a mirror. The only way to kill a vampire is …

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  • 82Vampire Blvd. — Infobox Film name = Vampire Blvd. image size = 150px caption = Vampire Blvd. Video Box Cover director = Scott Shaw producer = Scott Shaw writer = Scott Shaw narrator = starring = Scott Shaw Kevin Thompson Joe Estevez music = cinematography =… …

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  • 83false vampire — Vampire Vam pire, n. [F. vampire (cf. It. vampiro, G. & D. vampir), fr. Servian vampir.] [Written also {vampyre}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A blood sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about… …

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  • 84bat — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 in games ADJECTIVE ▪ baseball, cricket, table tennis (BrE) (Ping Pong™ paddle in AmE) ▪ aluminium (BrE), aluminum (AmE), wooden …

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  • 85Vampire (roller coaster) — Infobox roller coaster name=Vampire imagedimensions= caption= location=Chessington World of Adventures section=Transylvania type=Steel type2=Suspended status=Open opened=1990 closed= manufacturer=Arrow Dynamics designer= model= track= lift=Chain… …

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  • 86bat — 01. People often think of [bats] as blood sucking monsters, but actually most [bats] just eat insects. 02. Don t throw the [bat] after you hit the ball; you might hurt someone. 03. Vampire [bats] adopt baby [bats] who have no parents, and have… …

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  • 87bat — A member of the mammalian order Chiroptera. [M.E. bakke] vampire b. a member of the genus Desmodus; an important reservoir host of rabies virus in Central and South America. * * * basic aid training; best available technology; blunt abdominal… …

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  • 88vampire — [18] Vampire probably goes back ultimately to ubyr, a word for ‘witch’ in the Kazan Tatar language of an area to the east of 529 vast Moscow. This was borrowed into Russian as upyr’, and from there probably found its way into Hungarian as vampir …

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  • 89vampire — [18] Vampire probably goes back ultimately to ubyr, a word for ‘witch’ in the Kazan Tatar language of an area to the east of Moscow. This was borrowed into Russian as upyr’, and from there probably found its way into Hungarian as vampir. English… …

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  • 90vampire — noun Vampire is used before these nouns: ↑bat …

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